Calendar

Jul
20
Thu
Understanding Historical Change
Jul 20 all-day

lecture-eight-sullas-reforms-undone-and-pompey-and-crassus

lecture-nine

The Spartacus War

Rubicon (Unabridged)

Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician

Caesar: Life of a Colossus

The Commentaries

The standard undergraduate biography of Sulla,

https://www.amazon.com/Sulla-Last-Republican-Arthur-Keaveney/dp/0415336619/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500517131&sr=8-1&keywords=Sulla

 

Jul
21
Fri
Understanding Historical Change
Jul 21 all-day

Powerpoint lecture-seven-2

Powerpoint lecture-eight

lecture-nine-2

Caesar’s Siege of Alesia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxyv3LGmL58

Cicero’s Speeches against Antony The Philippics – LibriVox

Aug
4
Fri
Understanding Historical Change: Ancient Rome
Aug 4 all-day
Aug
31
Thu
The Birth of Learning
Aug 31 – Sep 6 all-day

Syllabus: clas-4040-syllabus-fall-2017

Henri marrou-old-education-sophism-2

Walden, Universities of Ancient Greece: https://archive.org/details/universitiesofan00walduoft

 

Sep
7
Thu
The Birth of Learning
Sep 7 – Sep 13 all-day

This week’s readings are in the same PDF as last weeks, just begin at page 46 ff.

Henri marrou-old-education-sophism

Also, I think I mislead you into thinking perhaps that you had to read the Gorgias dialogue for this week.  It is actually to be read for next week.

I apologize for any confusion.

Sep
12
Tue
Philosophy Homework
Sep 12 all-day

**Homework**

Please spend twenty minutes practicing the following exercise:

https://www.quia.com/mc/2240067.html?AP_rand=1865047311

 

Sep
13
Wed
Philosophy Homework
Sep 13 all-day

**Homework**

Please complete the activity, and write out each of the fifteen words on a sheet of paper.  To be collected tomorrow.

Note also that long o (ō) signifies omega, and short o (o) signifies omicron

Practice the Greek Alphabet 1 – tabney.com